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Lay That Burden Down!

Storm.3.1.14
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  Smoking had become a burden: the rituals, the toxins, the stench and soot, the drug, the addiction, the social stigma, the shame, the illness - the very packs and wrappers and butts, themselves! - all added weight to the burden…and it became too heavy to bear.
   
  So, we gave it up. We proclaimed, “  Enough!“, and we laid that burden down. We shrugged it off our shoulders, we pried it from our arms, and we freed our hands to embrace something…  else. Something   bold and   fresh. Something   unknown, yet still   chosen and   wanted. Something inherently - by definition -   better than what we discarded.
   
  A shiny, new Quit…so full of   promise and   potential. And   hope.
   
  Don’t you see?   A Quit is like an answered prayer, not another burden we must carry now.
   
   We did not put an end to one life of suffering only to begin a new life of struggling.
   
  Let the facts   empower!
  Let the wisdom   embolden!
  Let the skills   enable!
  These do not add weight to our new journey; they add   energy! 
   
  It's the fixations and neglect, and the worry and regret and doubt, and the excuses and exceptions and compromises with addictive cigarettes - these are the unnecessary bricks, and the rusty chains and shackles, that get shoved into our arms and onto our shoulders, when we fail to see our Quits as…  liberation!
   
  So, please, let us not lay down one burden to just replace it with another. 
   
   Accept the lessons in every minute of your Quit, and learn to nourish your chosen gift.
   
  Embrace it! Teach it!
   
  Protect it! Respect it!
   
   
   STORM: 9,000   cigarettes   untouched by these freed hands
   
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